Article ID: CBB000003279

Three unpublished letters to Charles Darwin: The solution to a “geometrico-geological” problem (1980)

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Description Presentation of three letters written by the Cambridge geologist and mathematician William Hopkins to Charles Darwin in 1845 and 1846. Darwin consulted Hopkins on geological problems relating to the sedimentary beds on the Chonos Archipelago in South America.


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Authors & Contributors
Roberts, Michael B.
Thorson, Robert M
White, Paul S.
Veuille, Michel
Stone, Philip
Stoddart, David R.
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
British Journal for the History of Science
Science in Context
Marine Ecol.
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Springer
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Geology
Travel; exploration
Mountains
Paleontology
Evolution
Field work
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Lyell, Charles
Thoreau, Henry David
Sulivan, Bartholomew James
Scrope, George Poullett
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Wales
South America
United States
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Cambridge University
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